December 18, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 7 Waldwick State grant will aid with school roof replacement The Waldwick School District will be receiving $80,000 from the state Depart- ment of Education towards replacement of the roofs on the Traphagen School admin- istration building and the Art / Music / Conference room building. The funds, from the NJDOE’s School Facilities Grant Program for Regular Operating Districts (RODs), will cover 40 percent of the cost of the project, estimated to run about $200,000. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Patricia No further action taken on requests about Idalane Waldwick Police will keep an eye on Idalane Street traffic during the after- school hours, but the borough council will take no further action at this time. “We’ll have it monitored between 2:30 and 3 p.m.,” said Councilman Don Scio- laro as the governing body put to rest the controversial issue at a recent meeting. “I have not heard anything compelling that merits action.” For the previous two months, Idalane residents had been attending mayor and council meetings complaining about traf- fic on their block-long narrow street. They said parents waiting to pick up their chil- dren from the high school building after school double park and block their street and driveways, turn around in their drive- ways because there is no cul-de-sac, and speed down the street. The residents on the five-house street never presented a solu- tion they all agreed on. While they sup- ported no parking rules for parents picking up their children, they did not favor no parking restrictions for the residents and their guests. “This is more a nuisance than a safety issue,” said Councilman Frank Palladino, noting that while the issue is “sensitive to residents,” people who park on a public road are not breaking any ordinances. Mayor Thomas Giordano said residents had not attended the board of education meeting to express their concerns, and that the council cannot tell the board of edu- cation what to do. One resident had sug- gested that the school alternate dismissal times to cut down on the traffic. Borough Administrator Gary Kratz said that if parents were not allowed to pick up their children at the back of the school, they would add to the traffic congestion at the front of the high school and would also add to the traffic at the four-way stop at Hopper and West Prospect. “To put in an ordinance banning park- ing would be a knee-jerk reaction that may cause unintended consequences,” said Pal- ladino. “We’ll lay low and see what hap- pens.” Raupers said the roof project was at the top of the board of education’s priority list due to the damage being done by the extensive roof leaks, which she said had been patched repeatedly. She said no timelines for the project have been established as yet. The application for the project and related construction documents were pre- pared by the board’s architect, Di Cara/ Rubino at a cost of $16,000. The board’s request for aid for the replacement of the bleachers in the high school gymnasium and some floor refin- ishing work was not approved. Dr. Rau- pers said, however, that the district has an estimate of $193,750 for the upgrades on the 50-year-old gym, and work will begin in June. The ROD grant program allocated $455 million left over from previous state bond issues to fund about 40 percent of renova- tion and construction projects in school dis- tricts previously ineligible for such grants, which went to poorer school districts.